21st Century Literacy

The Big Picture

• Keeping the Promise of the 21st Century: Bringing Classroom Teaching into the Digital Age - NWP, April 2009
• ISTE - National Educational Technology Standards (NETS)
• A Vision of K-12 Students Today - TeacherTube video by B. Nesbitt
• Partnership for 21st Century Skills and my wikipage with the whole collection
• Writing, Technology and Teens - College Board and the National Commission on Writing
• 21st Century Information Fluency Developed by the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy
• Literacy for the 21st Century - Media Lit Kit

Link

• Read, Write, Think NCTE and the International Reading Association
• Introducing the Thinking Classroom - Harvard Project Zero
• The Daily Cafe - the 2 sisters authors of The Daily 5 and Cafe
• High School Ace - the academic homepage for high school students

Lurk

• Literacy for the 21st Century - Center for Media Literacy
• Five Key Questions that Can Change the World - Lesson Plans for Media Literacy
• The English Companion NING - Jim Burke
• Writing Between the Lines - National Council of Teachers of English
• 21st Century Literacies and a slide show teaching Online Reading Strategies from Noodle Tools

Leap

• Educational Origami 21st Century Pedagogy a wonderful wikispace about thinking and learning in the 21st century
• Free Technology for Teachers - winner of the best resource sharing blog by Edublog
• Common Sense Media free resources for media education
• Creativity and Innovation (ISTE)
• Creative Teaching - teaching creativity during the information tsunami
• Edublog - Blogging for students and teachers, made easy!
• The Edublogger -Tips, tricks, ideas and help with using web 2.0 technologies and edublogs
• Create a Wiki on Wikispaces - my site to get you started

Read a Blog

• A Year of Reading - Two Teachers Who Read. A lot. - Franki Sibberson and Mary Lee Hahn
• KidLitosphere Central The Society of Bloggers in Children’s and Young Adult Literature
• Mitali's Fire Escape - A Safe Place to Chat About Books Between Cultures